Since I’m not a mother, I have no idea about some of the important moments and milestones that all babies, toddlers and children must go through. I always thought that the first step and the first word were the two big ones, right? But it seems like people think the “first crawl” is really important too. And on that count, Duchess Kate is a failure! Seriously, that’s what Us Weekly basically says. Apparently, Prince George had his first crawl a few weeks ago… when Kate and William were in the Maldives.
Where’s a time machine when you really need one? Prince William and Kate Middleton missed an important milestone in their son’s life while on their first baby-free holiday earlier this month. The Duke, 31, and the Duchess, 32, were away on vacation when 8-month-old Prince George crawled for the very first time, a source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
The seminal moment for their little one occurred while the royal couple were enjoying some well-deserved R&R at the Maldives’ five-star Cheval Blanc Randheli resort in early March.
During their weeklong getaway, Prince George stayed with his maternal grandparents, Carole and Michael Middleton, at their home in Bucklebury, England.
Fortunately for the Duke and Duchess, their little heir still has plenty of big firsts ahead of him. “William and Kate are excited about the many milestones ahead,” the insider tells Us. “George already has a tiny tooth coming in. And his cheeks are chubbier than ever!”
There’s also his first public tour coming up in April. As previously reported, Prince William and his wife will take their son on a three-week trip to Australia and New Zealand, where they are expected to visit 13 major cities. They’ll be joined by their new nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo.
“She’s the first foreign nanny to look after a future British monarch,” a second source tells Us Weekly of the Spanish-born Borrallo, 43, who was trained at London’s Norland College. Adds a palace rep: “The Duke and Duchess are of course delighted she has chosen to join them.”
Will this be the first of many milestones they miss for Prince George because he gets in the way of their vacation schedule? Ha. I actually don’t think this is a big deal, but I’m saying that as someone who is uncomfortable around babies. I mean… it wouldn’t be a big deal if they had missed George’s first crawl if they had been out doing charity work, right? But it’s a big deal because they were on vacation and they dropped him off with Kate’s parents. Which is still a plot point that I’m not sure about – some sources claim that George was merely left with the nannies at Kensington Palace, not with Carole and Michael Middleton. Which version is better? Which is worse?
Meanwhile, as the new streamlined royal press office still works out their kinks, we’re getting one “nice mother” story to combat the one “bad mother” story. Hello Magazine published this yesterday:
As she celebrates her first Mother’s Day, Kate Middleton has been busy telling people she’s “very excited”. The new parents are about to embark on their first overseas tour with Prince George and everything seems to be falling into place.
As revealed by HELLO! the couple have just hired a Spanish nanny who studied at Norland College in Bath, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, to care for the little chap during the trip. The royal parents felt confident enough to leave their baby in her capable hands as they holidayed at a five star resort in the Maldives.
Mothering Sunday will no doubt be spent quietly either in Kensington Palace or more likely at the Middleton family home in Berkshire so the Duchess of Cambridge can congratulate her own mother Carole. Thoughtful William has probably picked out a gift for his wife. By her own admission Kate is “very well looked after” by her Prince and he is reported to have given her an eternity ring on George’s birth.
Hello is just the UK version of People – it’s like the St. James Palace press office wrote this. They couldn’t come up with anything more interesting than “Kate is looking forward to Mother’s Day!” (She’s probably looking forward to it because she’s so exhausted and in desperate need of another vacation.) The rest of the article is just a recap of George’s birth and how William and Kate are just like any other young parents, blah blah. I understand now why Us Weekly says that Kate and Will missed George’s first crawl: it’s because they were telling people on St. Patrick’s Day that George is “crawling and eating” a lot nowadays, so I guess that’s a recent development. Anyway, I’ve never heard that bit about William giving Kate an eternity ring as a push present. Why hasn’t she worn it if he did give her one? She just wears Diana’s sapphire and that’s usually her only ring. Huh.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Hahaha. Here’s what I think. When I was a child my mother had her own daycare business which she ran out of our house. I saw a lot of children grow up over the years and I saw them do a lot of their “firsts” like crawling, walking, toilet, first words, etc. At first my mother would proudly tell the child’s parents what the child had achieved until she noticed she was receiving nothing but negative reactions from people. Since then she never told any parent of the child’s “first” and would just smile to herself when a parent would proudly exclaim that so and so did whatever for the first time over the weekend. Hahaha. Point is? I guarantee you most people miss the “firsts,” they just don’t know it.
It’s cute.
This is a sweet way to handle it. Parents (most especially moms) feel guilty or are made to feel guilty enough. Wise woman.
I’m not disagreeing; only here to say that, in my experience as a first time mom, there seems to be a lot of build up to the “first” anything. It’s not just like he busted a move one day out of nowhere. He was probably on all fours; then on all fours rocking back and forth; then maybe inching forward in a way that resembled an earthworm (like my son); and then getting the strength to bring that forward by actually crawling.
My point is that it is hard to say when his “first” crawl was and who saw it.
That’s exactly how my son progressed, tummy time, getting up on all fours and rocking, inchworming, then crawling and I have to say around here it was a big deal. We were really excited to see the progress. Now he’s about to walk and just thinking about how not long ago he was laying on his belly “flying” puts a smile on my face and then makes me sad that he’s growing up to fast!
I don’t have kids, but to me, watching that progression would be better than TV! How marvelous! Love the way you told it.
My sister had the same experiences during her ECE stint. So many “firsts” happen on weekends, right? 🙂 Still, it’s sad that they missed out on that milestone. Hope they catch his first walkies!
My daughter pretended she didn’t know how to walk until she was TWO MONTHS SHY of her 2nd birthday. I caught her in the living room one day when I happened to glance at (finally) the right time. First real smiles are the best, I think. Other than that, when/where/why they do things shouldn’t be such a big deal.
mkyarwood, smart little girl you have. maybe she didn’t want to walk but rather be carried and close to mama….wonderful story
The entire RF press game is a total hot mess right now.
This. Except I’m convinced this is coming from Prince Charles. Ever since he started to control the royal press, there has been nothing but a slew of negative stories about Wills and the princess.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he arranged ther vacation and continues to arrange a limited amount of appearances.
It hurts to be second best! Lol
You really think Charles has the time to schedule Kate’s meager appearances? Even if he is a micro-manager, he’s known to have hobbies that are time consuming: painting, hiking, gardening.
Kate has no hobbies. Kate can set her own schedule. And she does. And she doesn’t like to work. Charles is just giving her enough rope to hang herself.
i think it’s not that PC’s office is actively handing out negative “leaks”, but it’s that they don’t actively release positive “spins” anymore, like who have time to cover all the little shenanigans William is up to, or try to cover up holy-cow-sized holes in the calendar by releasing meaningless “so and so is Scheduling secret meetings, is considering to take on more charity, is considering to think about A B C”
plus, press honeymoon is over?
Several things:
1. Charles finally learnt the HM rule about PR that silence can be golden.
2. WK’s PR used to update the public frequently with sugary articles about their intentions irrespective of whether those intentions were carried out or not.
3. WK’s PR would push an image, tweaked according to the public gossip/criticism such that it appeared that they were responding to criticism. Those articles were always sugary and so OTT as to be considered outright trolling.
4. Charles is applying the golden rule of silence to WK. Unfortunately, as they aren’t officially sanctioned to continue their previous avalanche of OTT positive PR which tended to bury any negative stories, you are seeing what looks like more and more negative stories about WK. Sidenote – this doesn’t mean that WK can’t or aren’t using outside sources.
5. In the past, negative stories about other royals tended to result in a change in public behaviour of said royal. WK seem tone deaf to the negative impact to their image from the negative stories, but also W (with no balancing note from K) seems to really resent the press without appreciating their role eg the reporters at his sandbagging event. He can’t change if he thinks he is a victim of the dastardly press.
Help me out here. What would be the motives behind these mostly negative stories? Is it, as LAK suggests, to try to get W&K to change their behavior? I don’t think it’s working, if that’s the case.
Juliette
That’s not fair. Kate has lots of hobbies. Shopping, redecorating, working out… spending other peoples money… That’s when she’s not having secret meetings with her charities.
Green Girl: i’m not saying or implying that the negative stories are some form of punishment to make WK change their behaviour.
I worded my comment poorly. I meant to say that in the past, when negative stories appeared about a royal, that royal (and or their handlers) took on board that criticism and appeared to change to correct the criticism.
I’m not saying that the palace would sanction such negative articles for that express purpose or even at all.
As an example, HM is now more touchy feely after tonnes of criticism about how remote and cold she was especially after the Diana’s funeral.
WK don’t seem to care what is written about them even when it’s negative and often they contradict their own good PR statements. They don’t appear to have changed an iota despite the criticism.
@LAK – Oh, I see what you mean, and I’m sorry to muddle things up!
I don’t see any problem. Young parents can have some hollidays without their child.
Those holidays are generally after those young parents, you know, put in a full 40+ hour work week and/or spend the majority of their time actually taking care of their child not watching others care for them.
These are two 30-somethings who have 27 office staff, a housekeeper plus staff, a cook, at least one nanny, and who managed to “work” roughly 3 and 6 hours respectively from mid-December until they took their holiday in March. And that holiday was the second holiday for both of them for the year.
Big difference between your average “young parents” and these two.
but didn’t you read the part about this being a ” well deserved” vacation? I’m sure it gets very tiring ordering servants around all day and night!
My 2 pence, you’re just jealous 😉 LOL. Familiar theme on any Kate posts, isn’t it.
Is not okay when you constantly use that child as an excuse as to why you can’t leave home for a couple hours every week to do an engagement.
Nailed it.
It’s not that they vacationed and missed their 1st baby’s 1st crawl. It’s that they used that child as an excuse for not working and needing more staff.
They can’t have it both ways and need to figure outwe know what they’re really doing and their PR spin doesn’t cut it in this age.
Exactly!
Also “first crawl” is really ambiguous. My son inched his way forward using his arms like a commando crawling through some underbrush. It took him about a month to get to the stage where he crawled using both hands and knees. As a doting first time mum, I thought of him as already crawling at commando stage.
But same parents can’t work for 4 hours maximum in the same country and with a full time nanny, house keeper and cook because they can’t leave their child alone.
How would they possibly get such intimate information unless there is a mole in the palace?
Exactly! And who freshly controls the royal press?
Who is jealous of the love wills and Kate get?
Who has motive?
Ding ding ding!
Well… I relish a good conspiracy theory as much as the next girl. If you try to shop a devilish plot to smear ickle Saussagelocks – I won’t believe a word of it, unless the CIA/NSA/anyUSmegaspies, the Mossad, a zombie Version of the KGB or Aliens are involved. Truth!
Still, for as long as I can remember (early Diana era) European tabloids reported that the next King Charles was mightily annoyed with all the attention his late wife was getting. Either there is a kernel of truth in this or it’s one of the most long-lived narratives in tabloid history.
So yeah, I’d buy your conspiracy theory. But please, add more drama, subterfuge, spies and Aliens.
Charles was annoyed with it — 20-25 years ago.
Doesn’t mean it’s true today though. According to several reports, Camilla has done a lot to help him get over being overshadowed by his two sons. At this point, Charles *should* be used to it as he’s played 2nd fiddle for over 30 years.
With all due respect (and I do love a good conspiracy theory), I really don’t think it serves Charles’ interests to sabatoge the reputation of his children. Ok, these people may not be blessed with genius level IQs, but I do think Charles has been around the stables long enough to be able to think that one through.
Kate and William just expanded their private staff and their household. Its likely a source within their newly expanded group. They’ve just hired 3 nannies, in addition to a housekeeper, a hair dresser, a maid, a butler, and their various security personnel. Its not like they live alone with nobody watching them.
Futhermore, any one of those people or their friends/family who they speak to in confidence could be the disgruntled source. All of the staff salaries have been leaked, and when your YEARLY salary is less than your employer spends on a DAILY shopping trip, most people would understand how they could feel disgruntled.
OK, they’re rich and rich people have lots of help. But she has her own hairdresser? Why ever, when she never does anything with it?
This could easily have been Ma Middleton, bragging about her grandson while she was out at the local shops. From there, the news got to a news outlet. It does not have to have been someone at the Palace.
W&K inadvertently leaked this themselves. They held a secret press meeting at KP with Harry and George the week they left for Maldives, and George was not yet crawling. Then they have an engagement a day or two after they return, and all of a sudden George is crawling. British press who was invited to meet George puts two and two together, but can’t report on it because of non-disclosures.
@AM. That makes sense, Thanks! I should have trusted that the press could figure that out for themselves.
“…well deserved R&R” eh? I’m not going to touch that.
Being almost thirty and my facebook feed has a case of the BABIES! I can’t go a day without “first crawl, first steps, first poops in toilet, first word, first swear word, first shoe tying” on my feed. *I* could not care less but to the parents it’s special and wonderful and their baby is the yooo-nike-ist little snowflake ever so they post. So I guess it matters to some parents a lot…to these parents (Kate/William), I don’t know if it does or doesn’t. I’d just be thinking, “Alright, s/he can do it! Dang it, now you can move and I’m lazy. Here we go. /mimosa”
If you need a laugh, read the stfuparents blog. It’s stopped me from going a bit mental when it’s seemed like EVERYONE in my life is married and popping out sprogs.
That blog kept me sane during the period where it was “photo a day” trend so they could make slide shows to show how big they’ve grown. I’m like, “Seriously, I know you’re proud of your crotch fruit and I would be too if it was my said crotch fruit but there is such a thing as “over sharing”.”
My husband and I have pretty much planned out our birth announcement: “Madness and genius are two sides of one coin. When my son/daughter is born, the gods will flip a coin, and the world will holds its breath.”
Yours is a birth announcement I can get behind!
My passive-aggressive revenge for clogging my facebook feed with OMG BABIEZZZZ!!!!1!! is to post photos of me doing awesome, I-have-no-children-and-thus-have-disposable-income things, like taking surprise long weekend trips to Montreal, posting photos from the restaurants I can afford to eat at or the shoes I can afford to splurge on, or posting updates like, “1 PM and just getting up! I guess it’s a lazy Saturday in bed!” I figure this is at least as obnoxious and eye-roll inducing as the constant stream of baby poo updates.
Usually that’s what happens: “Hey, my cosplay turned out great! Under $300 bucks too!” or “Football game this weekend vs. the Chicago Diesel Daisys. Let’s get some, ladies!” and then I get the, “Enjoy it while you can before you have kids :3 You’ll feel like a REAL WOMAN then!” or “I wish I could do that but my little Addison/Aiden/Ava-Rose is my world! :3 Being a mom is so en-goddess-ing” comments.
It’s like dude, do you have an identity *past* your kids?
@MonicaQ – No, they don’t have an identity beyond their children. It is sad and makes me mad on their behalf. You are a person in your own right. You don’t have to lose that by having a child.
@Algernon- I too passively-aggressively post the “Improptu Trip to Nashville” or “Check out this AMAZING breakfast I had mid morning, because I can” to counter those baby posts. I roll my eyes every time I see a status that starts with “Any Mommy’s know of a good…” You are the worst. You really are. Being able to do what I want, whenever I want is a pretty awesome thing.
MonicaQ you crack me up 🙂
My fave children’s book is Go the F^*#k To Sleep for these very reasons.
I am older without children and it gets better because my friends’ children are either out of the house or teenagers who are driving their parents crazy, but I still get the “Things You Will Never Understand Because You Are Not A Mother.” Granted, there are some things I will never understand, like how your vadge recovered from having a basketball come out of it, but some of the things I supposedly will never understand are just stupid. Examples: War Is Bad. I don’t know this apparently, because I don’t have children. Oh, I thought war was good, in fact I was about to start a war just for the fun of it. What Real Love Is. I guess I just thought I knew. Who You Really Are. This is something I’m pretty sure I know, but it have been told different. What It Means To Be A Woman. Sorry, nope, you are just sort of a neither nor. I guess my imagination is as infertile as my uterus.
I really do think being a mother is the most important job you can have, and I’ll always regret that I missed it. But I still have an identity and a self, and I think women who rely on being a mother for those things cheat themselves and their children.
@GoodNames THIS MESS BOTHERS ME SO MUCH
Sorry for the caps but I was in line at starbucks and asked for a double shot of espresso because I was tired and the lady behind me asked if I had kids. I said no. She scoffed and said, “Oh honey, you don’t know what tired is yet.”
Like working 40 hours a week, going to school part time, playing football, trying to buy a house, packing, and still managing to keep a marriage from devolving into “grunt-when-we-pass-roommate-status” does not account for tired. But I don’t have crotch fruit so I can’t POSSIBLY know what tired is.
MonicaQ – exactly! It is so smug and annoying!!
You ladies just made my day! Thank you. I’m a mum but totally understand being exasperated by those FB posts with updates on kids/babies/foetuses. I love my child, but not anyone else’s offsprings. I have a personality outside of the mum label and revel in it as of when I can. Plenty of mums in playgroups have shunned me for admitting this. What’s wrong with these women?
When I was 18 months old, my parents went on vacation without me and left me with my aunt for a week. When they returned, my mother ran up to me and I clung to my aunt and cried. Naturally, I don’t remember this, but my aunt loves to tell that story while my mother gives me a guilt-inducing “nice going” look. So George is lucky – if he was in my family, HE would be blamed for learning to crawl while his parents were away. Lol
My father traveled all the time when I was a kid. Once he came home from a six-week business trip and my brother, who was only 2 or 3 at the time, hid from him when he walked in the room. My dad was initially mad that he didn’t recognize him, but he was so little. My mother occasionally brings this story up, but it’s not usually a guilt story…unlike whenever a baby cries and someone in my family feels the need to mention that I was collicky for 5 months. My brother always makes a joke about it (“aaand there it is”) — thank goodness, because it makes me feel so bad!! I already have sympathy for Prince George, because his father spent so much time telling everyone he was a crier/screamer.
Lol, we must be related. I used to scream when my family went to see fireworks, and my brother says my nickname was Little Miss Ruin It For Everybody. I was only 2! Tough crowd, my family. Long memories.
My money’s on Prince George staying with the Middletons during the Maldives vacation. Sounds just like the tacky, gauche Middletons to sell the “first crawl” story!
That doesn’t make sense. Carole wouldn’t plant a story that make Kate and Will look like inattentive or absentee parents. Besides, Hello mag is known for getting palace approval before running a story and go out of their way not to anger anyone.
Did the Middletons think that selling those trashy paper plates celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee made Will & Kate look good? Or does it demonstrate that they’re primarily concerned with attention and profit? Viewed in that (latter) context, it is entirely feasible that they would sell a story about being the only ones present for the baby prince’s first crawl.
And what is your point re: Hello mag? Obviously, I’m talking about the 1st story in the post, from US Weekly (described as the “bad mother” story).
But not to Hello mag. And your example would not have directly made Will and Kate look like less than perfect parents.. Apples and oranges.
The story about Kate & Will missing the first crawl was in US WEEKLY, not Hello. You — and whatever point you are trying to make about Hello — are not making sense.
Honestly, I don’t see the big whoop. I missed a lot of “firsts” for my daughter, because I was working like a lot of mothers. Yeah, Kate doesn’t exactly work, but missing a crawl isn’t that huge of a deal. I was always a little taken aback by people who assumed that every little thing the baby did would be “magic.” Maybe I’m a cynic, but for the first year of her life, I viewed my daughter as pretty uninteresting. I mean, she ate, sleep, pooped and cried. That was largely it. Sure, there were some lovely moments, but she wasn’t exactly intellectually engaging, if you catch my drift. And my in-laws taped a bunch of the firsts and so we have them preserved for posterity. Do I feel bad? No. Frankly, I like her a lot more as she ages. The only think I judge a little is why William and Kate even call it a vacation – a vacation from what?
You sound sane! I don’t have kids either and my peer group is a little young for it, but my older sister is getting it from her friends. She is not married and has no kids either so we stand around and watch. I think I started some drama with one of her friends when they brought their kid over to my sister’s place for a get together (after everyone was expressly being told no kids, but that’s anothher story). I was apparently “too good” with her super special kid. She just couldn’t believe that me, a childless girl in her wild and crazy early twenties could change a diaper and calm a cryer! When she commented on my skills I most likely had my signiture ‘you’re kidding right?’ Facial expression and said yeah, all babies do that. She didn’t take to kindly to me implying that she actually didn’t have super special mothering powers.
One of the most refreshing mum comments i have ever read!
Kate has been wearing an eternity ring with her engagement ring recently. I noticed because it looks just like mine. I’ll have to tell my husband I must be well looked after like The Duchess. Haha
Not sure if it was a push present, although I’ve just noticed it in the past month or two.
Correct. What Kate Wore has covered the eternity ring with photos and stories.
Could it be an “I’m sorry” present for his trip with his ex? Could they be having marriage troubles? I haven’t been following this that closely, but this Maldives trip seems to be an attempt to reconnect as a couple. They had to have known this trip would be criticized. It seems to me either they were oblivious, or it was necessary.
I don’t think missing the first crawl is as big a deal as some are making it out to be. It happens. Kate has been wearing a new ring, though. Look closely in recent pics, and you’ll see she is wearing a diamond band in front of her sapphire engagement ring and her wedding band behind.
Eh. Despite her lax lifestyle, the mom in me cannot shame her for this. It just wouldn’t be right.
+1 it happens
I’m not a mom but I agree. Her parenting is off limits.
why??
Candice – Because if you shame one mother for not being with her baby full time, you open the floodgates to shame women in general for not being with their babies full time. There is a long, well documented tradition of “studies” showing that everything from day care to baby formula will stunt a child’s development – all of which are ways to shame mothers back into the home -i.e out of the workforce and into economic dependence. Kate is a different situation given that she’s not in the workforce, but she’s still a mother of an extremely well cared for child, so let’s not find fault where there isn’t any.
Kate is not your typical mother by any stretch of the imagination, yet she and Baldtop are trying to cultivate an image of being “normal” everyday folks like the rest of us. For that reason, I think the scrutiny and criticism directed at her is warranted, because obviously her behaviour contradicts this.
I think that what needs to be considered is how much of the “caring” she’s actually doing. Multiple nannies, spotted out shopping all the time, has multiple staff to do the cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, and most of the hands-on childcare. She’s probably spending a few hours a day with him, max, in between clothes shopping, Starbucks, her 3 X a week hair appointments, working out, etc.
She is not an ordinary stay-at-home mom struggling to do it all. Trying to compare her to one (or to defend her as if she is a regular SAHM) is like someone else said above, apples to oranges.
Bettyrose,
As others have recognized, Kate is not part of the “general” population so I don’t know where you’re going with the “shaming” (shaming, really?) reference. Maybe it’s just a case of you being on the wrong web site (note the title), or maybe some of the criticism directed at Kate hits too close to home? As a mom myself, I don’t take criticism or negative opinions directed at a celebrity personally.
Wow, you guys, lighten up on Bettyrose. She was just saying that no mother, regardless of who she is, should be made to feel ashamed because she missed the first crawl. Women shouldn’t be judged if they work or have lives outside of their children as long as the child is loved and taken care of. Parents are human beings, including Kate, and they aren’t obligated to sit staring at their child twenty four hours a day. They aren’t bad mothers because they took a vacation or went to work or went to get their hair done. It’s not going to hurt the baby if you didn’t see it’s first crawl. George is very well cared for, and none of you have any idea how much time she spends with him or the quality of that time. So what if she has help? That makes her a bad mother? Is someone who doesn’t have help and is trying to do laundry and make dinner and feed the baby a better mother? Why are women so quick to judge each other and their choices? Why do you all assume that Kate doesn’t feel love for her child just because she has money? That makes no sense.
Goodnames
Save your breath lol. Because Kate has shown herself to be uninspiringly vapid and lazy some people feel justified in slamming absolutely everything about her. There are so many legitimate things to criticize I would be uncomfortable going after areas of her life I really know little about, especially her love of and care fir her child. Gee! I do’t work and I have a cleaning lady. I might be horrible too, lol.
The point I was trying to make is, it seems odd to me to defend Kate Middleton for being a SAHM when she isn’t really a regular SAHM. As for her parenting being unassailable because women all have to stand together as one and support every decision every woman has ever made regarding motherhood? Not buying that one.
If people are going to continually blame Charles and Diana for their parenting 3 decades on, I don’t see why William and Kate should get a free pass just because. Maybe they are good parents, maybe they are lousy parents, but we are allowed to voice our opinions regardless.
Dame Snarkweek, you are the voice of reason for me today. Thank you again.
Tuppence
Kate’s motherhood is far from unassailable but there isn’t enough to go on to say she’s a bad mom. I wasn’t singling out your comments anyway. I understood your view to be that Kate can’t be seen through the sane sahm lens as a normal woman would be because she isn’t. Of course you’re absolutely right on that. My comment was due, rather, to the more judgemental and extreme shaming I have seen about Kate as a mom. I think that route is tacky, unimaginative and concern trolling to the nth degree. Kate’s flaws have given some people license to be…creative.
Goodnames
There are days when I also feel like I’m shoutung into the wind 😉
Loved your gutsy stand today.
DS, with all due respect, I personally haven’t seen enough to convince me she is a good mother, either. Give it a few years and we’ll see.
The more photos I see of Kate the more I am convinced that she is a total ditz. She looks clueless most of the time, twirling her hair with a big empty stare. It doesn’t surprise me at all that she cannot even give a proper 1-2 minute speech. She will never change.
I feel awful because people look and judge at me too but damn I can’t help but think if she had another brain cell, it’d be lonely /guilt.
MonicaQ, it would be lonely, roaming around that big ol’ empty space. /noguiltwhatsoever
Ooh, Monica, I love it! “If she had a brain cell, it would die of loneliness!” Perfect!/no guilt
This is a great comment – even though you run the risk of being branded a jealous hater for making such an observation!! Maybe if Kate cultivated some interests and put in some effort she could slow the deterioriation of her remaining brain cells. The drastic dieting is not doing her brain any favours either. Essential fatty acids, Kate, you can do it!
This story seems completely made up. Who in the RF/Middleton camps would leak a story suggesting Kate is anything but a perfect and attentive mother?
Yup.
US Weekly isn’t known for its spot on coverage of the British Royals. I agree with a poster (@AM) that stated above that someone took quotes and extrapolated what they wanted.
+1
Exactly what I thought when I first saw this headline. Sounded completely made up. But people on here seem really quick to jump on anything negative about Kate Middleton lately.
Kate has been wearing the eternity ring since walking out of the hospital. It is very thin, as is her actual gold wedding band. The engagement ring over-powers the other two, so you aren’t aware of them in pictures.
As far as the baby goes, I almost get the feeling that he is just an “add-on”. They’ve done their duty to provide an heir – now they can go back to their own business of vacations and not being busy. What with Charles, William and now George – the Royal succession is overflowing with prospects. Don’t think Kate needs to worry about a “spare” any time soon.
There are pictures of her wearing the ring during her two work outings this year. It’s hard to see it but it’s there. Usually on top of the sapphire.
As long as Kate is in the presence of William, I don’t think she knows she’s missing anything. I mean she missed out on having a life while dating him. BOOM!
Nine one and most probably true.
I think its not a big deal at all or it reflects poorly on them as parents. I criticise them for not working, taking so many vacations, using George as an excuse to not work or as PR prop, spending millions of tax pounds but not missing for 1st crawl, it’s not a big deal IMO.Chuck and Di missed William’s 1st birthday in comparison.
HA, thanks Angelic. I said it as a joke but I think it’s true. She was so obsessed with landing her prince that nothing else mattered and she was in a self-made bubble. Now, she’s in the BRF-made bubble and I think there are one of two simple things happening: 1) She loves it; or, 2) it sucks and the it’s getting to her. Sometimes I think option 1 and other times I see shadows of option 2.
“Thoughtful William”
Of Course *lol*
Makes me wonder how many firsts the lovely Kim Kardashian has missed. Me thinks pretty much all of them.
I don’t mean to be antagonistic, but what does Kim have to do with Kate? I see this “comparison” a lot on the DM and it leads me to believe that some view Kate as a step above D-list celebrities. Maybe it’s a deflection tactic for Kate fans, but I wouldn’t even compare Kate with Kim.
Lol.
I’m sure little Prince George will still have a fabulous life even if Kate & William manage to miss all of his “first”. He’ll be fine, she’ll be fine, William will be fine.
Even if it mattered, I don’t remember there being some momentous “first crawl”. They just sort of gradually moved around more and more until you realize they’re in the kitchen and you left them in the living room.
I’d hate to have missed the first step, but I think my emotional reaction to crawling was more along the lines of “oh crap, now I really have to watch him”.
My son definitely had a first crawl, whereas my daughter’s was more gradual, so every child is a bit different.
Maybe it has been a while since having a baby but isn’t eight months kind of old to do a FIRST crawl?
That’s what I was thinking, but then some babies are content to just sit and watch the world go by for awhile.
Kate has been wearing that eternity ring for some time now. It’s very visible in pics. It’s above her Diana ring.
What is an eternity ring? Like a wedding ring?
FLORC: it’s a wedding ring style band made of diamonds all the way around. Some people have half an eternity ring which has diamonds on only half a band, but I find that confusing especially if they have a similar engagement ring of several stones.
Fun fact: Calvin Klein’s Eternity perfume is so named after he bought Wallis Simpson’s eternity ring at auction after her death in 1987 and found the word ‘eternity’ engraved on the inside of the band. See Royals do influence the modern world.
A band comprised of a row of gems set side by side, all the way around. Like a tennis bracelet in ring form.
oops, sorry for redundant reply. LAK’s wasn’t up yet while I was typing mine.
I could care less about news of William and Kate, but what gets me is this…How do these “news outlets” know that the two of them missed their baby’s first steps? I doubt Kate’s parents are contacting these outlets giving them this personal information. It must be a slow news day.
Good question. Is someone leaking the information, or is it just made up, do you think?
My 2 year old recently told me to Shut Up for the first time then she followed up her first shut up with another one in the grocery store in hearing distance of people. Nothing like your kid doing all the things you said your kid would never do.
I am anxiously awaiting my first f word out of her. Hopefully in hearing distance of several strangers. My great parenting skills on display. ha ha
That made me laugh so hard! You poor thing!
My then 5 year old niece buoyantly asked me if we were going to stop on the way home from school to get some more beer. Catholic school. Horrified looking nuns and me trying to just get her into her seatbelt.
Over the weekend I had introduced her to root beer floats and she had fallen in love with root beer. Kids are awesome.
That cracked me up. Mine opens the fridge and says more dr pepper. My husband asked me do you put that in her cup. I was like no never. Whole time I’m thinking well it’s diet dr pepper so it’s low cal.
Omg we are so even now! I just laughed so loud I woke up the dog lolol. I feel so much better about giving my niece skinny decaf latte before cheerleading camp. Shhhhh!
One of my friends had a little boy who couldn’t pronounce his tr’s, he used f’s instead. And some little boys are obsessed with their toy trucks. Needless to say, she was embarrassed more than once!
Prediction: They’re going to miss a lot of ‘firsts.’ They’re very busy people doing very important & influential work. Loads of newly-opened vacation spots to promote…
William and Kate are both shallow, dumb, lazy, self-entitled brats. Isn’t it better if they DON’T raise George themselves?
I’m no Will+Kate worshipper but this seems harsh. If Andrew and Fergie raised two lovely young ladies, then…
This was way harsh. Wishing a kid less than one year old would be raised by different people just because his parents took one vacation too many for you? Wow.
I think this is a relatively big deal if only because the kid was EIGHT months old before he started crawling. My daughter was also slow on the crawling, walking thing and she didn’t crawl until almost nine months. And when she finally did, I practically broke down in tears I was so relieved.
So is this as big a deal as the first steps? No. But it’s still a pretty big deal if your kid is on the slower end of doing some of this stuff. (I know plenty of parents rightly don’t stress about when their kids hit these developmental milestones but I always worried a bit cause I just wanted my kid to do it in the normal range.)
Hope your little one is developing by leaps and bounds 🙂
Kate HAS worn the eternity ring, a few times now – ever since her 2014 appearances started.
If that is her push present, though, William is a cheap bastard. That thing isn’t exactly impressive.